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Fluoroalien
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 Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject: Issue launching amarok .. |
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After upgrading to KDE 3.4 I have a strange issue ...
| Code: | bash-2.05b$ which amarok
/usr/kde/3.4/bin/amarok
bash-2.05b$ amarok
bash: /usr/kde/3.3/bin/amarok: No such file or directory |
Launching it as "/usr/kde/3.4/bin/amarok" works fine, but why can't I just run "amarok" |
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justanothergentoofanatic
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:39 pm Post subject: |
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When you type the name of a command without a full path, the bash shell has to determine the full path to the executable somehow. This is done using the PATH environment variable, which contains a list of all the directories bash should check for executable files. Your PATH doesn't contain the directory /usr/kde/3.4/bin/, so bash can't find the executable called 'amarok.'
You can either add the directory to your PATH:
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/kde/3.4/bin"
Or, since /usr/bin is already in your PATH, make a symlink from /usr/bin to the KDE diretory:
ln -s /usr/kde/3.4/bin/amarok /usr/bin/amarok
-Mike |
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Fluoroalien
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| Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2005 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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Err.
Actually /usr/kde/3.4/bin is already in my $PATH.
Notice the first two lines I quoted in my original post. |
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wjholden
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 5:28 am Post subject: Re: Issue launching amarok .. |
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| Fluoroalien wrote: | bash-2.05b$ amarok
bash: /usr/kde/3.3/bin/amarok: No such file or directory
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That's weird. Can you post the output of |
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Fluoroalien
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:55 am Post subject: |
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| Code: | bash-2.05b$ echo $PATH
/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3.5:/opt/Acrobat5:
\ /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:
\ /usr/kde/3.3/bin:/usr/kde/3.2/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/share/karamba/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/games/bin |
(line breaks added by me)
I'm not sure why kde/3.4/bin is mentioned twice, as I didn't add it manually at all, but otherwise it looks fairly normal. |
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wjholden
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 7:11 am Post subject: |
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Ok, this is a little out of my league. But what you could try is
| Code: | $ unset $PATH
$ export PATH=/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3.5:/opt/Acrobat5:
\ /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:
\ /usr/games/bin:/usr/share/karamba/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/games/bin |
The only thing I changed was to remove /usr/kde/3.2/bin and /usr/kde/3.3/bin. When you open a new terminal it'll go right back to the original value, though, so I don't know how you change it permanently. Workaround: ln -s /usr/kde/3.4/bin/amarok /usr/kde/3.3/bin/amarok |
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Fluoroalien
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| Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2005 9:16 am Post subject: |
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| destuxor wrote: | Ok, this is a little out of my league. But what you could try is
| Code: | $ unset $PATH
$ export PATH=/usr/kde/3.4/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/3.3.5:/opt/Acrobat5:
\ /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/bin:/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/jre/bin:/usr/qt/3/bin:/usr/kde/3.4/bin:
\ /usr/games/bin:/usr/share/karamba/bin:/usr/games/bin:/usr/games/bin |
The only thing I changed was to remove /usr/kde/3.2/bin and /usr/kde/3.3/bin.[/code] |
I'll try that when I get home (just got into work), but to be honest it'll probably confuse me more if that works, because it should be finding it in /3.4/bin first and the presence of those later in the path shouldn't make any difference (assuming my understanding of PATH is accurate)
| Quote: | | Code: | | Workaround: ln -s /usr/kde/3.4/bin/amarok /usr/kde/3.3/bin/amarok |
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The easiest workaround is just for me to launch it from the K Menu, it's not presenting me with a major problem getting it to run, it's just that this is confusing the hell out of me and I really want to know what's going on  |
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